Ghost Rider and Punisher are announcements I expected, having recently travelled to the the brilliant D.I.C.E. in Dublin, Dundrum, Ireland all put together by the friendly crew at Big Bang Comics, this reminds me I still need to write about my experience there, anyway back to the point at hand while at the con there was a Marvel Panel which I attended with my dad and at this once the floor opened to fan questions one of the first to come up was about Punisher and Ghost Rider and whether they will be returning to there own monthly series'. The moderator of the panel, Marvel talent scout C.B.Cebulski told the crowd to expect new titles from these characters in early 2014 hence why I expected an announcement. But what excites me most is the talent and creators on these titles.
First off, but in no particular order, Marvel announced a new Ghost Rider Series from Felipe Smith, who is a new creator to my ears, and Tradd Moore, who illustrated the popular Legend of Luthor Strode with Justin Jordan at Image and whose work I am familiar with from a select few Deadpool covers;
Above is an image, most probably a cover, by Tradd Moore for this new series, this image was released by Marvel with an interview with Paul Montgomery, which I strongly recommend giving a read. Ghost Rider is another character who I never have managed to jump into since I started collecting comics, I use to stick solely to my Avengers books. It has been made clear this wouldn't be Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider but a new host for a Spirit of Bengeance, his vehicle of choice being a car will make him easy to pick from the crowd of past Ghost Riders and also with the character being an 18 year old called Robbie Reyes it seems he may be more relatable than others. I can see this comic being one to watch but we'll know more come the March solicits and obviously when it's released in March itself.
Right, next we have the new Punisher series to come from All-New Marvel NOW! This will be released in February coming from the creative team of Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads. These two are relatively unknown to me, from the little I have seen of Gerad's work I really like his style and the art work released alongside the announcement doesn't disappoint.
The little I know about Nathan Edmondson is that he has several successful books at Image Comics and I look forward to having the chance to finally pick up some of his work and may even go grab a trade of Who is Jake Ellis? It's the same with Mitch Gerad I'm not particularly familiar with his work but an unknown creative team is sometimes exciting when picking up a new book especially as you don't know what to expect until you upon up the first issue.
These two creative teams contain relatively unknown talent for me and I can not wait to see what they produce with two characters I am looking forward to finally have the chance to read. Punisher has long been on my to read list and I certainly need to pick up the Greg Rucka run, and with Ghost Rider this is finally my chance to see what a Spirit of Vengenance is made of. Punisher out Feb 2014 and All-New Ghost Rider out March 2014.
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